Category Archives: Hansen

Jens Hansen – Turning the Tide

Posted on July 3, 2018 by Kenneth Richard Hardman

Young Jens felt alone on the Oro Isle; alone as a boy could be. His mother and brother were taken in death, his father was gone, so you see His grandmother’s sister took him into her fold, but the fold … Continue reading →

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Anne Marie Hansen – A Young Mother in Richfield

Posted on April 22, 2018 by Kenneth Richard Hardman

Anne Marie gasped as her knees buckled. She sat down immediately on the rough porch covering her mouth with one clinched hand, holding her chest with the other. She widened her beautiful gray eyes to prevent tears from falling, which … Continue reading →

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Edna Violet Gulbrandsen – Baby Edna’s Miraculous Healing

Posted on October 19, 2017 by Kenneth Richard Hardman

“In the spring of 1908, Dad was called on a mission to Norway. Mother and five children were left home. In the spring of 1909, Edna was stricken with pneumonia, so the doctors thought. It later was diagnosed as spinal … Continue reading →

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Dona Jean Hansen Losee – Forever Close to God

Posted on January 29, 2017 by Kenneth Richard Hardman

During the boom-town 1950s in Los Angeles, Dona Hansen, the queen of the church Gold and Green Ball, and daughter of a self educated businessman and a most charitable mother, culminated her youth in what she thought would be the … Continue reading →

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Harvey Ralph Hansen – Perseverance

Posted on March 14, 2016 by Kenneth Richard Hardman

In the 1940s, during the boom-town years in Los Angeles, Harvey Ralph Hansen became a highly successful grocery businessman, first with Safeway, then on his own, feeding the ever-growing population of World War II factory workers flooding in from the … Continue reading →

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